What is Kama Bandha?
Kama:
meaning "Love /
Desire" in Sanskrit. Kama is the winged Hindu god of love, who is also the
son of Lakshmi
Bandha:
(Sanskrit: binding, bond, arrest, capturing, putting together) is a term often
employed in relation to yogic discourse and instruction. The term denotes a
binding, lock or bondage that may be either internal or external to the body.
Bandha may be defined as a particular focused and intentional action involving
pressure, contraction or force on the muscles or some other bodily or sensate
phenomena. In yogic traditions, bandha are to be studied, maintained and held
principally whilst engaged in pranayama. According to the Himalayan
Institute the word has been translated as “fetter, block, check, obstruct,
restrain, lock.” In this sense bandha is described as the damming up of a
river. But it also translates as “bond, connect, put together, unite, combine,
join.” In this sense bandha is described as bridging over a river. http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/yoga-international-magazine/asana-articles/root-lock/
In
Jainism, bandha, refers to the karmic process of binding of material karmic
particles to the soul consciousness. This bondage is on account of kasaya or
passions of the soul. As per ancient Jain text of Tattvarthasutra, bandha is
one of the tattva or fundamental truth of this world. As such the samsaric soul
is always found in bondage with the karma since time immemorial. Various
bandhas are described and elucidated in Yogic texts and discourse. However,
rarely is an exegesis of Bandha provided. Bandhas have been described in Hatha
Yoga Pradipika in the chapter relating to Mudras. Ten mudra are codified in
this treatise. Of marked importance, the chapter describes all bandha as mudra.
In essence, this page is a
mixture of all of these definitions --- a personal attempt to awaken the soul,
to connect, to bond, to unite all of us in our various stages of ecstasy and
grief to produce Kama (Love).
In a world filled with anger, violence, ignorance, and darkness, I feel that it should be a personal duty of each and every one of us to realize the potential light that we have... to show others that happiness is a possibility even with labels such as "depression" or "bipolar". I believe that negativity breeds off of negativity. In a similar fashion positivity feeds off of positivity. So go out in the world and smile and one person - hold the door for one person - compliment one person. Because at the end of the day, YOU are the rainbow in someone else's cloud.
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